1. Renovate land ports of entry, and staff them properly
The problem is between the ports of entry, moron. You obviously don't want to do a thing about that.
2. Give Border Patrol the proven sensor and communications technology it needs, where it doesn’t raise civil-liberties concerns for border-zone residents.
How does that physically stop someone from crossing the border? Building the wall is cheaper and far more effective. The best part of the wall is that it prevents illegals from stepping foot in the US and all the associated legal and processing costs of removing them.
3. More screeners and polygraph administrators to reduce hiring times while maintaining scrutiny
What good is that when the Dims refuse to provide funding for more border gaurds?
4. Provide inducements to retain existing border security personnel
What good is that when the Dims refuse to provide funding for more border gaurds?
5. More search-and-rescue capacity
How does that improve border security?
How does that improve border security?
7. More CBP Internal Affairs investigators
How does that improve border security?
8. And finally: comprehensive immigration reform
Amnesty, in other words. That harms our illegal alien problem.
Everything you propose is either more expensive and less effective than building the wall, or it's positively counter productive.
Everything you propose is can only work after the illegal has already entered the country. The process of removing an illegal who has already entered is 10 times more effective and takes infinite time longer than building a wall.
Your claim that you support border security is pure horseshit. You're a sleazy lying open borders traitor.
No one was fooled.
No one says you can’t work on border security
Who’s in charge of the money? We are. Now here’s 1 billion. Go do your thing. There’s lots of things you can do to fight illegal immigration besides build a wall. Start raiding republican businesses
Who do you think you're fooling? Why don't you just say "here's nothing?" Why would we want to do anything before we build the wall? That's your fetish. That's your excuse for doing nothing.
You're a ******* douchebag.
I guess the answer for that would be because Trumps Dept of Homeland security has released their report that the overwhelming number of illegal immigrants come from overstaying visa's and through ports of entry. So rather than hype up a couple thousand in a caravan, why not stop ignoring the hundreds of thousands entering through other means.
Terrorists overwhelmingly are entering the US through the legal border crossing, as do drugs according to the Trump administration.
Then in the US we have companies that routinely hire illegal immigrants with no penalty. We literally have private companies intentionally weakening our borders by providing a reward for illegal immigrants who get into the country. They have been involved in this push to reward and at times even help illegal immigrants enter the US. If this is a National Emergency, that those businesses are actively opposing that for decades, what kind of traitors does that make them to the USA? If we say that someone selling drugs from Mexico in the US is bad, why don't we hold them in the same light? Well a big reason why is a lot of them are the Republican base. Farmers. Mar-a-lago. Trump Tower. Heck, models have reported that Trump Modeling when assisting in the trafficking of those humans into the US, told them to lie to immigration officials about the purpose of their visits on their visa's so they could illegally work in the USA. So maybe that explains why he'd want a wall knowing most illegal immigrants don't come in that way. Gotta keep his businesses running somehow.
Some people read the 2018 DEA report on drug smuggling which says "The majority of the flow is through POVs entering the United States at legal ports of entry, followed by tractor-trailers."
They see that report that "Fentanyl is transported into the United States in parcel packages directly from China or from China through Canada".
That "Traffickers hide cocaine amongst legitimate cargo of commercial trucks or within secret compartments built within passenger vehicles. Traffickers are also increasingly targeting seaports along the East Coast of the United States as law enforcement efforts have increased along the SWB"
That "Traffickers employ various methods and techniques in the concealment of methamphetamine, such as human couriers at ports of entry, commercial flights, parcel services, and commercial buses."
That "Large quantities of foreign-produced marijuana are smuggled into the United States via personally owned vehicles, commercial vehicles, buses, rail systems, subterranean tunnels, small boats, unmanned aerial vehicles/drones, and catapults..."
That "As these liquid spice substances are widely available in China and other Asian and European countries, most U.S.-based traffickers can purchase the drugs already synthesized and have them shipped through mail carriers to perform final processing and packaging"
So when you look at the DEA and DHS and other groups our issues are with
1. Land ports of entry at southern border.
2. Shipping ports on our coastlines.
3. Mail service entry into the US.
4. Boats, drones, catapults and tunnels.
Then maybe comes things a wall will have any effect on.
It's like a guy who wants to get his car running as well and quickly as he can for an emergency, and he has 4 flat tires, a blown engine, no transmission, and his ECU is fried, and he's using his emergency money to replace the stereo. And somehow people choose to be idiots and say that's the way to do it.